Gun-related crimes: State FSL to enhance forensic ballistics capability

E-TENDER HAS ALREADY BEEN FLOATED FOR PROCUREMENT

- SOUMYADIP MULLICK

KOLKATA: In a bid to enhance its forensic capabilities in dealing with gun-related crimes, the state government is seeking to procure a 'Ballistics Data Management System' for the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) in Kolkata.

Sources told this newspaper that one of the required components of such a ballistics system includes a velocity measurement system having the provision to measure any velocity within 10-2000 m/s (or more) with an accuracy of up to 0.01 per cent.

It will also have the provision of measuring velocities at a minimum of three points of the trajectory, simultaneously, so as to evaluate the muzzle velocity, striking velocity and remaining velocity.